2023-02-28 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/91405289771?pwd=QzA3a0ozTjVSZ0hsYzgwTm9lVDRPQT09)

APAC Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220621T010000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 5 pm Monday Los Angeles
• 8 pm Monday New York
• 1 am  Tuesday UTC
• 3 am Tuesday Paris/Berlin
• 11 am Tuesday Brisbane

Agenda

•  Housekeeping
  • Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/
  • This meeting is being recorded
  • Please Mute unless speaking
  • If you have a question use the raise hand feature
• General Announcements
  • /add item/
• Roadmap Review 
  • Besu Roadmap
• Release updates
  • Release Rotations 2023
    
  • 23.1.1 proposed for March 8 - thoughts?
    • Ideally would include Goerli Shanghai config
    • No objections to March 8 release date
• Work Updates
  • Shanghai Epic: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/4746
    • Ready for Sepolia and on track for mainnet
  • Work started on EIP-6110: in-protocol deposits by external contributor https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5055
    • Appears to be done as part of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship by Mikhail's mentee: https://hackmd.io/@doPpmyH4Ta-4Yc8pq3u-ZA/BkQKSAn2s
    • Any reason not to include this on main using ExperimentEipsTime as a feature toggle?
      • Have further discussion on contributor discord
• Other Business
  • merge queue - any objections to enabling this?
    • the only change to how we currently work is you would have to manually squash commits on your branch PR rather than via the github UI - eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25356810/git-how-to-squash-all-commits-on-branch
    • Sally has tested it out on a couple of repos - notes here https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/5102 - I haven't come across any showstoppers
    • it's essentially the same as enabling auto-merge, except that any additional "merge from main" actions are automated
    • should reduce our CI spend, as well as reducing manual interventions
    • Outcome: No objections. Sally to enable it after the next release with notes on squash merge instructions
  • Final call to remove #besu-nodes Discord channel.
    • Previously mentioned 2022-12-06 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time
    • Discussion: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/905205502940696607/1044723284597559298
      https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/905205502940696607/1044756214669643856
    • One way would be give a couple of days deprecation and ask users with outstanding questions to move them over to #besu
    • Outcome: Simon to ping Danno on concerns re: besu-nodes channel deprecation. No other objections. If objections are resolved then remove the channel.
• Open Forum
• Future Topics

Recordings

https://youtu.be/5Ek_B-e-OAU